The Republican journal., 1887-11-24
THE MORM0NS.
Shall They Ea Allowed :: state Govern
I,.c7:t il, Utah?

Special Correspondence
SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. l9--The 5i,sinons
have done the United States tho lich honor
If rrorosinS 6 treaty, CT, rather, bargain
Put il, plain English, this is their pro- ositioa
I'VE have ieen violating Tie a;lli-j cly;cr21ly
law of l,C3 Tor twenty-five year hec;.uso we
believe tic Almighty commando L. to take
extra wives, and tie government fur u long
time mado 10 serious opposition: hut Low tho
government is putting cur BEST lnol in the
pcIiitcll.iary; therefore, if the United States
con 'rc:si VII ae;ltl;t Utah Is & state. We will
d:soIay nc law Of God rs We understand it
and abolish I;oiyGalny putting q lr0iibitory
clausc i'll Our state constitution. II other
words, dearly lelored, VIC will 4, good if
you will be kind ard let u; have Cur own way
i'll all other matters" It IS definitely pro
posed that = great government shalI stoop
troli its dignity and make har~cin With
men who begin with an a,.inowlttl INT nj that
they have violated Tie law heretofore. The
proposition that the Mcrmons stall abolish
rolygalny first and ask fr statehood after
ward is rcpildiatcil with scolu.
1t is scarcely necessary to point ont the Oh.
vious fact that The state Of Utah, once in the
Union, could alter its constitution at will or
itslcgislaiurc ignore the anti rolyganly clause
The pro- ogition gives us the right toexamine
Mormon history to determine whether they
are sincere. By their owr account tloy le
gan the practice Of polgamy in Nauvoo, u
Enois, il l--l'', pursuant to a revelation given
on III" l!!th Of July CT that year, and about the
same time they commenced denying Che i}rac-
tee and denouncing it in their publications..
On the lst of February, 1874, the heads Of
the church published in The Times ard Sea
SONS. church organ at Nauvoo, AN official dc
nuncation Of lsolgamy. On TIC l5th Of
Marcn follor. ing, q still stronger denial was
published. II July, 1S-.5; Il specific denial
was issued in The Millculial Star, tie Nor
inon paper i'll Liverpool l3i,alall,l In Nav.
lSi'. Tie sam" ORGAN repeated tic denial In
the n!oa1t...lo tie Mormon; Lad bcea driven
from l<a:ltoo: Col. since [cn.) Thomas
l.. Kane, brother of tie arctic explorer tray:
clcd with them in Iowa, and was the guest Ct
Brigham Young, who solcnnly assured lin
that the charge Of Iolygany was u vile
SANDER. Col. Kane certified dis to tie
government and American people; President
Fillmore accepted his testimony as correct
and appointed Brigham 1-o;:,.g governor Of
Utah. Ia July, 1850, Elder ,joEl. TAYLOR,
since president Of the Mormon church, off
cially denied and denounced joly2.ai.Iy il,
France. About the same time lie -;oilaon
elders revised and published the ''l}ortrine
and Covenants'-tAeir official Clise:lli,e-in
which they inserted q clause ticrouncil:r and
forbidding plurality of wives Al the mis-
sionariCs We're instructed TO deny the doc
trinc and practice, and did so III England
with the most solemn ,,,ths For nine years
-1Si3 TO 1.:53-these official dclials CON
tinued. The Mormoils now freely admit that
they told and published these faisehocGs TO
deceive the American people and secure full
control Of the territory, and that a lerse-
cutcd people is justified III lying to deceive
the Gentiles. How can we Lolicve their
present promises: But rolygamy is only one
reason, and not Tic Creates, against admit
ling Utah; the real evil. the dist nctively IN
American evil, is the tEcocracy which coz
trols the territory. The Molnnons have de-
clared a thousand times that they DO not
want and will net have an American &C.
mocracy; they want the kingdom OF God,
administered by his lrolliets priests and
apostles" And L tiicorratic deas' ,ttisn is one
of the things the American people are deter
mined not TO have set up anywhere il this
nation. j. g. PARKE